Matthew Chapter Twenty Seven

Isn't it amazing that we are very close to finishing this book of the Bible.  It has been a long process.
Two more weeks....stay with it, let's finish strong!

At the end of chapter twenty-six, Jesus was arrested.

What took place in the morning? Vs1   

What did they come up with? Vs2   

What was Pilate’s title or position?   

Judas (who betrayed Jesus) must have stayed to watch what would happen to Jesus.  What did he see and what did he do? Vs3   

What did he admit to the chief priests? Vs4   

He tried to right his wrong.  What do the highest, most “religious” people say to him?   

What did Judas do with the money? Vs5   

Then what did he do?   

The chief priests picked up the coins and what did they say about them? Vs6   

What did they do with the money? Vs7   

Does doing something right cancel out a wrong?   

What was the bought field named? Vs8   

Prophecy was fulfilled by this.  What did the prophecy say? Vs9-10   

Jeremiah 19:1-11 & 32:69 tells the history of the potter’s field that the chief priests bought with the blood money.   

Where was Jesus? Vs11   

What was Jesus asked?   

What was His answer?   

At that, who spoke up with accusations? Vs12   

What did Jesus say to these accusations?   

Because of this, what did Pilate, the Governor, ask Him? Vs13   

How much did Jesus reply to all of this? Vs14   

Who was amazed by this?   

What was the Governor’s custom during the Jews Festival? Vs15   

At the time there was a well known prisoner, what was his name? vs16   

When the crowd gathered, what did Pilate ask them? Vs17   

He asked this because, what did Pilate know?   

While Pilate sat on the judges seat, what happened? Vs19   

What were the Chief Priests and Elders doing to the crowd? Vs20   

When the Governor asked which they wanted released, what did the crowd say? Vs21   

Then what did Pilate ask them? Vs22   

Their answer?   

What then did Pilate ask? Vs23   

What did the crowd say?  

What did Pilate see was happening? Vs24   

What action did he take and say?   

 

How did the people smugly answer Pilate? Vs25   

What did Pilate do? Vs26   

Go back to Matthew 26:1-2.  What prediction did Jesus make?   

Why have Jesus flogged if He was going to the cross to die anyway? 

Look at the events in the Gospel of Luke. 

Luke 23:4-5 – Look at what Pilate told the crowd.  What did they accuse Jesus of?   

What was said about how far He was doing this?   

Luke 23:6-7 – what did Pilate do when he heard this information?   

Luke 23:8-12 – Herod must have seen Jesus as a magician of some sort.  Why was he excited to see Him?   

Who was standing by, vehemently accusing Jesus to Herod?   

What did Herod and his soldiers do to Jesus?   

In verse 12, what took place that day?   

Read through Luke 23:13-25 to see how Luke recalls the events.

 

Back to Matthew.

What happened to Jesus after Pilate handed Him over? Vs27   

Then what?  Vs28   

Then what? Vs29   

Then what did the soldiers do? Vs30     

When they were done mocking, what happened? Vs31   

Who did they meet as they started the walk to the place of crucifixion? Vs32   

What did they force him to do?  

How do we know that this wasn’t Simon Peter?   

By looking at the verses in Matthew, would we know that Jesus started out carrying His own cross?   

What place did they come to, and what does it mean? Vs33   

What did the soldiers offer Jesus? Vs34   

Did He take it?   

Once they put Him on the cross, what did the soldiers do? Vs35   

What did the soldiers do? Vs36   

What was above Jesus head on the cross? Vs37  “

Who was crucified there along with Jesus? Vs38   

How were they placed?   

What did the passerby’s do? Vs39   

What specific thing was said to Jesus? Vs40  “

Who else mocked Him in a similar way? Vs41   

When did they say they would believe in Him? Vs42   

In what other way did they mock? Vs43   

Who also heaped insults on Him? Vs44   

Read Luke 23:39-43.

What do you learn in Luke’s version?   

What happened at an unusual hour? Vs45   

At what time did this happen?   

What happened at 3:00? Vs46   

What did some of them there think he was doing? Vs47   

 

What did one person do? Vs48   

What did the others say about this?  Vs49   

What happened next? Vs50   

Read John 19:30.  What were those last words Jesus cried out in a loud voice?

Read Psalm 22 and note the parallels of what we have seen in Matthew.

 

What happened at the moment Jesus gave up His Spirit? Vs51 

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When the curtain tore in 2, was it torn from earth to heaven or from heaven to earth?   

 What does this indicate?  

What did the people of verse 51 do to solidify the miracle, or miraculous event? Vs53   

Read 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17.  When will this take place again?   

When the Centurion and the other guards of Jesus saw all these things, what was their reaction? Vs54   

Who was there watching from a distance? Vs55   

Why were they there?   

Who was among them? Vs56   

As evening approached, who went to Pilate? Vs57   

What had this person become?   

What did he ask Pilate? Vs58   

What did Pilate order?   

What did the man, Joseph, do? Vs59-60   

Who was sitting opposite the tomb? Vs61     

There are a few additional pieces of information in the other gospels to see.

Read John 19:38-42.  What else do you learn from John?   

Read Luke 23:50-54.  What day was it?   

What was about to begin?   

Back to Matthew.

The next day, after preparation day, would be the Sabbath.  What did the Pharisees do on that day? Vs62     

What did they say? Vs63-64   

What were Pilate’s instructions? Vs65   

How did they do this? Vs66   

Go back to Matthew 12:9-14. 

What did the Pharisees ask Jesus while looking for a reason to bring charges?   

What is it that the Pharisees are doing on the Passover Sabbath day? Vs62-66   

This was a long and difficult chapter with many events.  Reading about all that Jesus suffered and went through and then finally His death never gets easy for me.  But I’m always grateful for the chapter that follows….

Matthew Chapter Twenty-Six, Part Two

Jesus and His disciples share their last meal together.  Even though Jesus had revealed all along what would one day take place, the disciples weren't prepared for what the rest of the night would bring...

 

What two things did they do after eating? Vs30   

At the Mount of Olives, what did Jesus tell His disciples? Vs31   

Jesus goes on to quote prophecy; Zechariah 13:7.  What did the prophecy say? Vs31   

Jesus told them that He would go ahead of them to Galilee after what? Vs32   

Who speaks up and what did he say? Vs33   

What sobering information did Jesus give back? Vs34   

How did Peter respond to Jesus? Vs35   

The group went to the Mount of Olives.  What garden did they stop at there? Vs36   

For what purpose was Jesus going off by himself?   

Who did he take with Him? Vs37   

How was His mood when He got them to Himself?   

What did Jesus tell them? Vs38   

He went a little farther away from them and what did He do? Vs39   

Go back to verse 27-28.  What was in the cup?   

When Jesus asked the Father that the cup be taken from Him, what was He asking?   

Knowing that this was the Father’s will, to bring redemption to humankind, what did He submit to?   

He went back to the disciples and what did He find? Vs40   

What did he ask?   

Why did He want them to keep watch? Vs41   

What did He say was willing?   

What did He say was weak?   

In verse 21 what did Jesus say was going to happen?   

In verse 28 what do we understand is going to happen?   

In verse 34 what did He say Peter would do?   

In the context of these segments of scripture, what do you think verse 41 means?   

What does this mean for us?   

Stop and think for a moment; what is your usual or normal response to temptation?  Have you ever actually prayed when you felt extremely tempted about something?

What did Jesus do a second time? Vs42   

What did Jesus pray?   

Look at the wording in the 2 similar prayers of verses 39 & 42.  What new insight did Jesus seem to learn?   

When Jesus went back to the disciples, what did He find? Vs43   

What did he do? Vs44   

Then what? Vs45   

What hour had come?   

Finally, He tells them to get up, we are leaving.  Who did he say was coming? Vs46   

While Jesus was still speaking to the disciples, who arrived and what did he bring with him? Vs47   

Who sent them?   

What had the betrayer arranged ahead of time? Vs48   

What did Judas do? Vs49   

What did Jesus say to him? Vs50     

Judas had travelled closely with Jesus.  He was part of His close knit inner circle and he did the unthinkable, he betrayed Jesus.  And yet, what did Jesus still call him?   

What did the officials do? Vs50   

What happened next? Vs51   

Read John 18:10 to see who drew the sword.  Who was it?   

Now read Luke 22:49-51.  What additional piece of information does Luke, the doctor, give us?   

What did Jesus say about this? Vs52   

What did Jesus say that He could do if He wanted to be rescued, and what would happen? Vs53   

Why didn’t Jesus do this? Vs54   

What did Jesus ask them all? Vs55   

Then, what did He point out?  

Why is this taking place this way? Vs56   

What did the disciples do?   

Where was Jesus taken and who was there? Vs57   

Who followed? Vs58   

What did he do and why?   

What were the gathering of Jewish leaders looking for? Vs59   

Why?   

If it was “false” evidence that they were looking for, what does that tell you about the charges against Him?   

Did they find anything? Vs60   

Who had come forward?   

What did 2 declare? Vs60-61   

What did Caiaphas ask Jesus? Vs62   

What did Jesus say?  Vs63   

What did Caiaphas demand Jesus to tell him under oath of the living God?   

How did Jesus answer? Vs64   

What did Caiaphas call Jesus words? Vs65   

What did he say they didn’t need any ore of?   

Then what did he ask the group? Vs66   

How did they answer?   

Have you ever served as a juror?  How seriously did you, or would you, take that position?

Does it seem that this group had their minds made up ahead of time?

Why do you think, they never considered that He was the Messiah?

Once they decided what His sentence should be, what did they do to Him? Vs67 

 

What did they tell Him to do? Vs68   

Where do your views about God come from; passed down from parents, preaching by pastors, reading other’s thoughts or from scripture?   

What if our earlier training is wrong and so we are wrong, just as the chief priests, elders and Sanhedrin of Israel were?  

Where was Peter sitting? Vs69   

Who approached him?   

What was said to him?   

How did Peter respond? Vs70   

What did Peter do? Vs71   

What happened there?   

What did Peter say? Vs72   

After a little while what happened to Peter? Vs73   

How did Peter respond? Vs74   

What happened as soon as he finished speaking?   

What did Peter remember? Vs75   

What did this memory cause Peter to do?   

 

Have you ever suddenly realized that you denied Jesus?  If so, did it change you in any way?

 

Write your thoughts on this chapter:

 

Matthew Chapter Twenty Six - Part One

I have my computer back!  
That means that chapter twenty six can be posted this week, sorry for the delay last week.  Chapter 26 is an extremely long chapter, I have decided to break it into 2 parts.

Actually, my computer hardware issues is only one of many things that I have been dealing with.  This has been an interesting summer with plenty of challenges. 
As we have learned through the study of Matthew, and will find in the final chapters, being a Christian doesn't mean an easy life or trouble-free life.  Actually it can mean the opposite when you add persecution or suffering for Christ in with all the normal troubles that come in life.  We also can't discount the activity of the spiritual enemy of Christians:
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Jesus urges us to hold fast or be an overcomer so when difficulties come, He is who I cling to. 
Like me, I hope that whatever may be taking place in your life right now, you will count it all joy and continue to seek Him and His knowledge. 
2 Peter 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Let's get to it...

Matthew Chapter Twenty - Six, Part One

 

Jesus finished saying “all these things”.  What were they?

What did Jesus remind the disciples is two days away? Vs2   

What will happen on that day?   

Meanwhile, who was gathering? Vs3   

Where did they assemble?   

For what purpose did they assemble? Vs4   

Think about this….was it a deliberate intention to have Jesus murdered?   

When did the gathered people decide it would NOT be a good time for this? Vs5   

Why?   

Where was Jesus at this time? Vs6   

What took place there? Vs7   

What was the disciples problem with this? Vs8-9    

Read John 12:4-6.

Which disciple do you think was the one to start this discussion and why?   

What did Jesus say the woman had done? Vs10   

How did Jesus justify what she did? Vs11   

What did He say the perfume was for? Vs12   

This event was so special; what did Jesus say would always happen because of it? Vs13   

Jesus had 12 men, called disciples, that He was sharing His life and teaching with intimately.  Which one is mentioned in this verse? Vs14   

Why is he mentioned, what did he do? vs14    

What did he say? Vs15   

What was the offer?   

What did he watch for from that time on? Vs16   

 

This is one of the best things to ask God every day:

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

 See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

 

What did the disciples ask Jesus? Vs17   

Which day during the festival did they ask?   

What instructions did Jesus give? Vs18   

What did the disciples do?  Vs19   

Where was Jesus when evening came? Vs20   

What were they doing? Vs21   

While there, what did Jesus say?   

How did they feel about what He said? Vs22   

What did one after another say to Him?   

How did Jesus answer them? Vs23   

Then what did Jesus tell them? Vs24     

Who spoke? Vs25   

What does the text tell us about him?   

What did he say to Jesus?   

How did Jesus answer him?   

During the meal, what did Jesus do and say? Vs26   

What did Jesus do and say next?  Vs27-28   

Why was Jesus blood poured out? Vs28   

What did Jesus tell the disciples next? Vs29   

 

Every time a covenant was made or renewed, death occurred.  

Read Leviticus 17:10-14 and Deuteronomy 12:23-25. 

What is the life of every living creature?   

What does this scripture say not to do?   

Read John 6:53-58.

What does this tell us about the blood of the Son of Man?